What’s in your Shampoo?

Filed under: Health by: brennan
Shampoo Bottle

Have you ever read the list of ingredients on the back of your shampoo bottle and wondered what kind of impact those those long difficult to pronounce chemicals may have on your health, especially after decades of daily use?

Also, what are the effects on the environment when these chemicals come out of the sewage system and go into our rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if they end up in another city’s water supply downstream? And this post only covers shampoo! What about other products that end up in the water system like cosmetics, hair gel, shaving creme, and laundry detergent?

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